Mark Lawrence

Prince of Thorns has been on the shelves for 15 years!

Since my old website went kaput, I'll repost this short story here.

The Bookshop Book has a cover - another magnificent work by Tom Roberts!

300 contestants are being narrowed to 10 finalists for the 11th time!

This is my new author page!

The title says it all really.

It's 3 weeks until the book hits the shelves.

This is day 33 of my youngest child being in hospital.

Next month you'll be able to get a copy in exchange for nothing more than money.

This is the allocation of SPFBO 11 books to blogs.

Just to minimise the number of people taken by surprise: As has long been advertised on the official SPFBO page, this year's SPFBO is opening its doors in January rather than May.

At 15, this blog is now older than Prince Jorg Ancrath for the majority of my debut novel!

I thought I'd close out 2025 with a helpful info-graphic.

I do this every year, so you can step back for more than a decade should you so choose.

I often speculate on mortality - it might be a writer's curse, or just 'my thing', but I can't walk through a graveyard without thinking about the people beneath the ground, the lives reduced to dates and a "Beloved".

The fantasy iceberg is world, history, character.

I'm not sure who this might interest, but there are always a few people who ask the sorts of questions that are partly answered in the diagram below.

So, I have a number of social media platforms where I've built up a significant following over the past 14 years as an author.

Tom Roberts is adding incredible detail to the rough I showed you earlier this month!

I posted earlier this year that I was confident I'd passed the 3 million mark in global sales.

Although excellent in its own right, this is merely Tom Roberts' rough for the cover.

I've noticed that, if people come to a particular page of this blog following a link, there is a truly terrible level of discovery for the rest of the blog...

Before you look at the results make sure to do the test!

So ... is AI writing any good?

The pricing of books is a vexed and complicated subject - emotions meets economics head on with often bruising results.